Coping Skills SEL Colouring Pages – 4 Strategy Sheets

Students identify and name a personal coping strategy for managing stress or big feelings.

Students associate each of sixteen coping strategies with a specific shape and colour through the colouring activity.

Students use the reference page to recall the full menu of strategies independent of any single shape.

Introduce the reference page first so students see all sixteen strategies before choosing which ones to colour into each shape.

Use the four shapes as a rotation across a week (one per day) rather than assigning all four in a single sitting, since each covers a distinct set of strategies.

Pair the activity with a calm-down corner or self-regulation routine already in place in your classroom, since the pages name concrete actions (walk, breathe, talk to an adult) rather than abstract feelings vocabulary.

Coping-strategy identification — students name and colour specific self-regulation actions such as taking a walk, breathing, or asking for a hug.

Colour-code following — students match each written strategy to its assigned colour within a shape outline.

Self-regulation vocabulary — students encounter and reuse terms like ‘peaceful place’ and ‘deep breath’ across multiple pages.